American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer demonstrates the famous endgame position between the Duke of Brunswick and Paul Morphy.
Date aired – August 5th 1971 – Bobby Fischer
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Where, in your opinion, does Bobby Fischer rank in the list of the greatest Chess Grandmasters of all time?
I really like the questions, it's like Dick actually questioned me what I want to know about Bobby.
my two moves = checkmate. next !
Awesome interview! Thank you so much for posting this!!
Fischer memorized potential moves and games. By starting off with unusual moves the opponents are reacting to situations Bobby had already played out in his mind.
Please keep posting videos related to the great Bobby, look at the views on Fischer videos!!
He forgot to put a bishop on f8
Most chess fans may hate Dick Cavett for not knowing how to play Chess. Yet, I like the way he did the interview with the world greatest Chess player. He played it well.
Great video, now when can we have the Bobby Fischer interview on The Dick Cavett Show from 1972 after he won the world chess championship?
Such a cool guy. He excited the world.
Cavett like many others didn't know chess, because Fischer put the game into the public consciousness!❤
I taught myself chess in grade school but when Fischer played Spassky shortly after this interview my interest in chess skyrocketed!
It would’ve helped if Cavett would’ve prepared a little on Chess.
There was a Symphonic beauty in the way Mikhail Tal played. It was as if the pieces acquired an intelligence of their own and orchestrated their march up the board on their own – eager to serve their master.
Many decades ago, when i learned the game, i would play out the games of the greats, and on many an afternoon, the games of Tal were the ones that i looked forward to playing with an ecstatic anticipation.
Bobby Fischer's approach was gladiatorial.
To me, his approach was that of a serial killer going about his job with a cold efficiency. All the bone-crunching and blood – letting, achieved with an equanimity.
All the emotional displays were reserved for his off-board tantrums springing from his peculiar sense of justice in the staid world of 20th Century chess.
He made Chess a spectator sport in his time.
Genius sometimes has a price, and in his case, it was an idiosyncratic obscurity that caused him to fade away from the chess world that he so lit up.
Dick Cavett is just so incredibly vapid. How ever did he get his own show?
Dick Cavett is such an awkward interviewer. And he didn't even know a single move of a chess piece lol………
It's rather insulting that Cavett didn't even take the time to learn how to play the game.
He is talking about Najdorf, the guy that played 40 people blindfold. Later he played 45.
Fun fact: He learned to move the pieces at 14 years old, when he had to take care of his friend's sick father, while this boy bring medicine from the farmacy, the sick man teach him to play. One week later, it was impossible for this man to beat Najdorf. By 17, he already was a top player and winning international tournaments all over Europe.
I am a big D.C. fan and I love being able to watch these shows. They are real treasures. But I can't help wonder why Dick didn't send 30 minutes learning the basics of how chess pieces move before having Fischer on as a guest. He comes across as a total ignoramus.
His mind unfortunately, was not clear
Cavett: Are you good at Maths
Fischer: I never tried to develop myself in those things
Epic.
6:42 Epic joke!
Dick Cavett had quite a sense of humour. 🙂
I met and played a grandmaster. He had that same look of " intense confusion" in his eyes
It's really embarrassing Cavett didn't even know the moves of each piece – it's fairly easy to teach a child in a day (not to play well but to know the moves). It should have been part of his preparation for the interview.
Petrosian had not only been a World Champion, but he was and is widely considered to be the Greatest Defensive player ever. Fischer did Beat him, as he predicted so confidently, 6-2 I believe.
Wait dick cavett show. Dick??
To those of you getting on Dick Cavett ass about not knowing the chess moves, you have to realize that he's talk show host with a wide audience. He might actually know the moves, but the audience doesn't, at least many of them don't. Many times the talk show host will play dumb, so as to ask a question that someone in the audience might ask who was a little more clueless. In other words, he was pretending to be the dumbest person in the audience asking questions as to play to the entire audience. He is doing it in such a way as to not insult the audience.
The interviewer not knowing the basic rules of how the pieces move.. I mean how can he even do that segment! Lol
yes the famous Morphy game which I knew since I was a child
Bobby.❤❤.
#1 Kasperov
#2 Magnus (soon to be #1)
#3 Fischer
He’s a tough interview.
Bobby Fisher is fascinating on account that he was the greatest chess player in the world beating Russia's best. Great source of national pride for the U.S. at the time. Although I was only 13 and had no interest in chess, this episode in the history of the cold war has left a deep impression on me.
THE BEST
"that guy Petrosian" imagine being good enough to say that